My first steemiversary - CELEBRATING MY FIRST BIRTHDAY!
Time flies when you are having fun, it really does. One year ago, I started my steem journey and it is quite fun to compare my work from back then with the one I am doing now. So much has changed, I have changed and my posts have too. When I first got here, I had no idea about what witnesses are and I remember how even the difference between steem, SBD, and steemit gave me a headache. My first posts got 3 to 5 upvotes and maybe a comment or two. What is the point I am trying to make here? DO NOT GIVE UP! I wanted to... A couple of times actually... Ok, more than just a couple but I am glad that I didn't because after one year on the platform, I feel pretty satisfied with how things are now.
CC0 image, Pixabay, author: Image4you, adapted
After that one year, a celebration is in order. It is not every day that your steemiversary comes so I will say thank you to a lot of you and hand out a couple of gifts. I will even ask you to give me a gift. It is my birthday after all and I want gifts too :D
Posts about steem birthdays that I have seen so far, always had some numbers in them. Most of those numbers can be found on steemworld.org but I understand that bragging rights are important and it's not every day that you get to show off all your accomplishments from the past year so stay with me, I will try to make it short. (emphasize on "try" lol).
Numbers, numbers, numbers...
This birthday girl sure did come a long way from those 3 upvotes and 1 comment per post and here is some data that shows you just how far I have gotten:
- wrote 291 posts and made 6,820 comments
- reputation 67,933
- 1,119 followers
- 22 witness votes given
- member of 31 discord groups
- received 70 curie upvotes
Topics that I wrote about and will continue to write about include psychology, biology, physics, health, food, stories, DIY projects, needlework, painting and then some but all of them are connected with my Philosopy of happiness or how to live a happy life. All of them are connected with one of my favorite quotes:
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
― Mahatma Gandhi
Every day is about fun and every day is about learning something new and becoming better than you were yesterday. On that journey, the first person you need to learn about, improve, focus on and study is yourself and everybody else deserves the respect to be treated like an individual regardless of the sex, skin color, nationality, religion, education degree, and health status. This is the way I live and what I think is the right way to live so naturally, this it the thing that I write about :) An eye for an eye only leaves the whole world blind and choosing love is always the best approach. Love yourself, love people arround you, those far away from you, love our gorgeous planet, and love our amazing Universe.
I would not be where I am if it were not for all of you lovely people who read what I write, upvote, comment, and reestem my work. Thank you very much. All of your support is very much appreciated and I am grateful beyond words for every kindness and encouragement you show me. There are so many of you that I would like to personally say how much you mean to me and how much I admire you for everything you are doing for this platform. Let's start with some groups...
- @steemstem, my lovely group of brainiacs who teach me so much every day. You will find the best educational posts from these people and enrich your knowledge. Learn like you are going to live forever, remember?
- @thealliance which is lead by an awesome Batman and has a special family vibe. I was the headmaster in their server and helped new people with html and designing and thealliance has given me the opportunity to meet some amazing people
- @thesteemengine was the first group I have joined and the place where I have learned that community is everything. To this day, some of the best people I know are in that group and are one of my best commentators and encouragers.
- powerhousecreatives, with the old name @steemitbloggers that is such a lovely place to be and such a diverse one too. Always filled with great initiatives, socializing, games, and contests. There is something going on every day and there is never a dull moment.
- @naturalmedicine is a group of people dedicated to natural healing, nature and self-work, filled with love and support for anyone who enters through their door
- @welcomewagon is a great group/project that helps new people and is so loving with their advice, encouragement, and teachings. Many great people were given knowledge about the platform here, people who are now full grown steemians and going places
- @steemsugars, @steemiteducation, @earthtribe, @ecotrain, and @actifit as an amazing app and group I would also suggest to anyone
Much love to my favorite people:
If your name is not up there, it does not mean that I do not love you, it only means that I forgot about you and that is on me, not you :D
A special thank you goes to @fundition who have accepted me as one of them and it really is a pleasure to be their Editorial director. The entire team is amazing and I could not have asked for a better boss than @hightouch and better people to work with than @addicttolife and @goyard.
Join a community with heart based giving at its core
What kind of birthday would this be if there were no presents involved? As a thank you to all of you who are supporting me, I have decided to give away some SBI and SP. I will give 2 SBI shares to 5 different people and those people will tell me what group they want me to delegate 50SP. If more of you say the same group, that is ok too, the group will then get more SP.
All you have to do is leave me a comment, a nice one, about anything. 5 best ones will win. That is all. Not so hard, right? I will be subjective, of course, and there is no telling which comments I will like the best but do not overcomplicate this. It is easy because you always leave me amazing comments and there is no reason why you would not now. Just do not forget to mention which group you would like me to delegate 50 SP. After the post-payout, your SBI will be sent and the group you nominated will receive the delegation.
I want some presents too!
Sure, you can give me whatever you want and it will be very much appreciated (steem, SBD, SBI, SP, cake, candy, chocolate, wine, jewelry...) but I do have something in mind that would make me really happy. At the moment of this post, my reputation is 67.933 and it would be really really really nice if all of you would make that number become 68. That is what I want for my first birthday, a fresh new reputation number. Make it happen people :)
All I can say at the end that I promise to work hard on supporting your brilliant work and creating quality content for you to enjoy. Never forget that you are special and unique, marvelous and capable of more than you realize. You have all that you need, you have yourself. When those moments of doubts kick in and when you do not believe in yourself remember that I DO .
Until next time,
KEEP YOUR SMILE ON!
Image sources AND LICENCES in order of appearance:
- all images used in this post are free for commercial use, they are royalty free with the links to original images provided under them
- titles are made with the CC0 image from Pixabay that can be found here
- line divider that I use is from FREE CLIPART LIBRARY, and is here
- my bitmoji avatar was created on https://www.bitmoji.com/, visit the site to create yourown
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It's been mine as well, writing as we speak though I'll do a humbler shorter post :) been pretty much overwhelmed and less present (but not absent) Congratulations :)
Happy Steem anniversary! Your posts are a breath of fresh air, love them! I am not daily in here but whenever I get a chance to log in, your's is one of the first blogs I read. ;0) I hope you will get to see the 68 rep today. You will get there anyway!
While I was reading this post I realized that mine was one week ago. Ooops! Gotta make the time and write a post on about it!
Then happy steemiversary to you too honey!!! Let us make the next year even better! 💚
The best I can offer you is a 100 percent upvote. I know how hard it is to push your reputation higher at this level, but every little bit helps (at least that is what I have been told).
So I want to walk down memory lane just a bit and share two things I remember about our shared time in the Steem community.
Here's to many more B-days!
Thank you for your upvote and for such a nice and valuable comment. Yeah, I think I did introduce you to bitmoji and I really like how it/you look. Thank you for appreciating my visuals, they do take a bit of time to get created but I enjoy the play. I am glad you find my posts interesting, thanks! 💚
Happy Steemiversary!
Thank you 💚
Congratulations on your Steem-anniversary! I'm not sure if my vote will push you over to the new number... these exponential curves are a right pain in the bum!
Every vote helps, little by little. I am already on 67.941, slowly but steadily I will get my gift :)
I see you made it! Congrats!
If you want, we can flag you under so you can relive the glorious moment over and over!
Congratulations!
Thanks 💚
You are what I call, a role model on Steemit. You have come so far, explored every corners of this steemit-sphere in just one year and you deserve so much more! I hope your story inspires many others who were once like you a year back, getting that few upvotes, feeling disheartened but turning it around with hardwork, dedication, commitment, compassion, kindness and all sugar and spices. I cheers to you for more years ahead this journey with you.
Ps : you my favourite person
hihihi, awww you are so sweet and kind. I could not have asked for a nicer supporter, thank you very much 💚
@zord189 I join you saying Happy Birthday to @zen-art! ❤️
You wrote a lot and it is really good.
Hip Hip HORRAY!
LOL
Happy Steemanniversary! You really have achieved a lot in a year! :)
Thank you, I think I did ok and there is still so much more to come 💚
You are a phenomenal person, a happy fairy literally.
I wish you health and happiness and to reach asap 68 and more :p
Let's go for the second and golden year!
Lot's of love!
We will make the second year even better and more amazing than the first one, that is the plan! ;) Thank you for your support and kindness, much love! 💚
happy Steemversary! I will go for the glass of wine, but for this, we will need to meet so that you can claim your present ^^
Until that moment comes, I raise my glass to you honey. Thank you for everything 💚